The Place Without Limits

Arturo Ripstein / Mexico / 1978 / 110 min / English subtitles
Wednesday Sep 30 at 21.00, Kulturhuset Hartwig

Gender fluid Manuela owns a brothel in a small town in Mexico together with their daughter, La Japonesita. A greedy capitalist wants to buy their brothel in order to hold a monopoly over the village, all the while Manuela and their daughter want to seduce the same man, Pancho. The Place Without Limits is both a funny tragedy and a tragic comedy, but first and foremost, a critique of machismo. It is a film that shocked and delighted, both back in 1978 and in our time, and is considered an important milestone in Mexican queer cinema.

The event is also included in ’Full Night: Focus Latinamerica’ (150 kronor), which you can choose in the Select Pass menu below.